Google Chrome App Shortcuts Don't Work
When I Create App Shortcuts in Google Chrome, the Shortcut Icons Appear, but They Don't Work. Any Idea Why? I'm Running Ubuntu 13.04 and Chrome 28.0.1500.29...
When I create app shortcuts in Google Chrome, the shortcut icons appear, but they don't work. Any idea why? I'm running Ubuntu 13.04 and Chrome 28.0.1500.29 beta.
2 Answers
Opening up the created .desktop files in a text editor displays:
#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Name=Gmail
Exec=/opt/google/chrome/chrome --app-id=pjkljhegncpnkpknbcohdijeoejaedia --profile-directory=Default
Icon=chrome-pjkljhegncpnkpknbcohdijeoejaedia-Default
StartupWMClass=crx_pjkljhegncpnkpknbcohdijeoejaedia
When running the command /opt/google/chrome/chrome --app-id=pjkljhegncpnkpknbcohdijeoejaedia --profile-directory=Default, however, I get the error:
/opt/google/chrome/chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Examining the file /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop, which ships with Chrome, indicates that the correct executable path is /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome, not /opt/google/chrome/chrome. So the problem can be fixed by editing the created .desktop file, changing the Exec line from:
Exec=/opt/google/chrome/chrome --app-id=pjkljhegncpnkpknbcohdijeoejaedia --profile-directory=Default
To
Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --app-id=pjkljhegncpnkpknbcohdijeoejaedia --profile-directory=Default
Here is what worked for me:
Replace /opt/google/chrome/chrome with google-chrome
So my Exec looked something like:
Exec=google-chrome --app-id=pjkljhegncpnkpknbcohdijeoejaedia --profile-directory=Default
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